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I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.